How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Elodie lowered her gaze in thought for a moment. "You don't need to worry. I'll find

a way to handle this. There are several people assisting me at work, and they'll all be questioned as well. Maybe something just went wrong somewhere along the line."

"Let's wait and see," Charlie said. "I'll reach out to Klein again and see if there's anything to clarify. Don't be afraid." He didn't know the details, but he trusted that Elodie wouldn't make a mistake.

Elodie nodded in agreement.

There were quite a few people on the team.

But the person who handled most of the important tasks with her was Lily Lockwood.

Everything Lily submitted, Elodie reviewed first.

Which meant the problem had to have occurred right before submission.

As for Lily, she was clearly less of a suspect. She had nothing to gain by tampering with the data, and Elodie had a personal relationship with Jarrod—a marriage in name, if not in spirit.

Besides, Elodie didn't believe Lily bore her any deep grudge that would make her risk everything to frame her.

After all, if Lily got caught, she'd lose all the hard-won opportunities she'd fought for.

When the call ended, Alexander finally turned to her. "So, what's your take on all this?"

At the moment, with Elodie under investigation, her work with Project 719 would be put on hold. She'd have to step away from the facility to ensure an impartial review of the situation.

Once she was suspended and off-site, she wouldn't have a chance to prove her innocence. She'd be left sitting on her hands, just waiting.

a lot of ideas, but nothing I can be sure of yet." Alexander considered this. "You think Jarrod has

know

was run, or how things went between her and Jarrod's team. But the fact

almost never slipped through. By all reasonable analysis, if there

since things between Elodie

thought. A man like Jarrod could

that Jarrod and Elodie had a

cared about

he blamed Elodie for “getting rid of

as Jarrod could he really

might have sounded a

the hardship Elodie had endured over the years, Alexander couldn't bring himself to fully trust Jarrod, not

almost immediately. "No. All the data I tested

before submission, from

She understood Jarrod.

he did hate her, he wouldn't stoop

direct brutal, even-but, net

to

Who would be that bold?" Alexander was

it

admit, Elodie was handling it better than most would. She hadn't

time, he admired

to analyze. They'd have to go home

The car started up.

glanced out